From Turkey to Greece 2007
 

I hope you like my moldy report, 4years passed, but i wanted to share here...

The route
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at the turkish-greek border, we are so happy :)

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on the bridge between turkey and greece, greece is just at the opposite

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when stopped at a gas station we met a guy, and talked a little, we had a friend in common,everyone was so surprised, then we traveled together untill Kavala and took the same hotel and talked, he was a kind and an helpfull greek man named: theodoros.

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the first day ended in kavala, in the morning we are moving to thessalniki and we'll meet Isaak

small break at the lake district
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here is my beemer brother Isaak and my wife Elif at a cafe in ARISTO square..very popular and nice area
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Isaak, Panos, Andrea and we get to a baechside place to have some meal,
it was totally great :) i miss all

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our bikes,
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on the road back to city center
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In the evening we'll meet the other Beemers of Hellas Thessaloniki at their point, Bara Cafe.
we liked them all,
it will be hard to leave them there the next day

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on our third day, we searched somewhere which is very important to Turkish people :)

Turkish Leader who won our liberation war; M.Kemal ATATURK's house in Thessaloniki, still being kept as a musesum.

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a coffee break at the castle of thessaloniki with a great view,

because of the hell hot we spend the whole day with beemers and go on our route in the evening time...

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after a couple hours riding we decide to stop and sleep at Volos, a nice seaside town, there are many motorcycles everwhere, we cant see that much the whole year in our town.

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4th day...

we change our route a little and take the ferry to Evotia island

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the island is perfect for us, with a high quality road and many curves...
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a small village at north of the island, Pefki; very nice sea, we were burning it was very good, and great meal again :):)

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the curves of this big island made me tired but we couldn't find a place for the night, and go on riding.

at night time we arrived to Khalkis (mainland) and searched for a hotel, the town was very colourful, active

every place we arrive , we like it more, everywhere has an interesting speciality...

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the most interesting thing in Khalkis, the bridge :)

the water is changing direction every 6 hours and cant be explained they said

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after having our breakfast we start the engine to Atina, we'll meet Nikos, our another Beemer friend for a cup of coffee (Frape very cool http://www.ukgser.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)

and go on to the highlight of our travel, soon...

Nikos arrives
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with his secondary bike for short distances...

we had a great meal again,with sea products, midye(muscle) kalamari rice..mixed..

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now on board to SAN TORINI :)

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[IMG]our boat is a HIGHSPEED ferry, excellent, drinking,smoking possible,inside our out,doesnt matter :)

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first of all we arrange our room, a very nice,lovely and affordable place,
in fact the cheapest room we found was at the most expensive area of the country :)
30eu/2prs/breakfast
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we are a little tired so we just go to Thira center for a few drinks and get back,
tomorrow morning we have to be dynamic for The Sunset Tour, where we will walk on the old volcano and swim at different bays...

enjoying pinacolada
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look at her, very desperate, why? i really dont remember, may be my dear is so tired or what?
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Some view from SANTORINI,charming,attractive..ha?

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a man at his shops door invited us inside when he saw my tank bag, firts i couldnt understand..

he also owed a 1200gs and recognised the tank bag, he ordered us some cool drinks and we talked..

he had a nice model i could never find to buy.. :(

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now lets go on the sunset tour

this is our boat

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walk on the volcano, hot and smoky
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and the special moment of the day :)

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Tonight is Elif's birthday, we make a little celebration and live the enjoyable night life of the island...

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the next and almost our last day we leave the island, from Pireas we'll take the boat to Chios island which is the last stop for us before Turkey...

its a long and boring boat trip because we will arrive to Chios at 03.00am and have to wait fot the boat to Cesme-Izmır (TR) for about 6hours.. :(
but nothing to do..

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spending time in pireas, most of the shop are closed for siesta


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at chios after sleeping for a while on benches we get on our boat to Cesme (TR)

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and in an hour time we see our country, some happy to arrive, some sad-trip ends

Cesme Port
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we have 350km left to home, and we are very excited to hug our kids in the evening...


THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AT READING,HOPE YOU LIKED IT
SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH :)

things i loved:
meals
roads
smoking everywhere
kindness of greek people
the respect to the riders on the highways

things i hated
the burning hot (i'll never travel in july again)
expense of the ferries (total 550euros just for the ferries)
siesta

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(next: Italy report...)

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Glad you had a nice time here in Greece. Our countries have much in common but many different things also. The kindness and hospitality of the Turkish people is widely known. One day i will come with my bike in Turkey and get to know the Turkish people first hand. Till then, thank you for posting :)

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we are very happy that you like Greece!we hope to see you soon!!!when we came to Turkey we'll try to find you!!

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:sm8:

Bora , +1200

I m planning a wkend mini trip with my wife nearby your area.
If my way passes through your place, I ll stop for a caffe.

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Thank s for sharing the moto trip with us..........:sm7:
spitikos from Chania Crete

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thanks for sharing the travel.n'joy your bike;):)
and welkome in forum!!:sm8:

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:sm8::sm8::sm8::sm8::sm8:

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Yours hospitality is also known here, i know many people happily returned from Greece with the same thoughts. :)

If you plan to come here please dont hesitate to contact...

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I also hope, we've passed Meteora because limited time..
next time we'll see it
and my location is at my signature ;)

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we dont know the word "if"; we are just waiting for the friends... ;)

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Very well done Bora :)
Many thanks for sharing your trip with us, I'm sure everyone appreciate it a lot!


Keep on traveling and... as you just said, there is NO "if", so we meet in Turkey ;)

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:sm8::sm8:

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thank you George, i hope so :)

and just a few minutes ago i dreamed a gsforum.gr visit :)))

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This is the first trip in Greece that we host in the section TRIPS ABROAD!!
the forum is becoming global!
Nice trip in some of the most beautiful places of our country.

i hope to see you soon in Thesaaloniki again:)

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Hey BoRaBoRa! I just saw this.

Nice travelogue there buddy.
It was nice to see someone coming "the other way", for a change.


Smoking everywhere eh? Alas, not anymore my friend.
We suddenly decided to become "politically correct" (somebody forgot we were Greeks :sm3:).

Ride safe.

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:ye02: :ye02: :ye02:

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nice bora !!!!i hope to see you again man!!!:):):)

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Thank you Dimitris, you are a very good friend, we talk about you sometimes with the girls, they remember and smile..
We've missed you and portakali beach :)

Everybody, Always welcome to Turkey,

Cheers,